8v^ XOTKS tl\ THE i:.\ST COAST IV\XTU OF EIC.HTV YEARS AGO. 



Chingangany. but were driven oft" with loss, and later on were 

 warned that in view of their treacherous conduct they would 

 be treated as foes. Thus they were to send in hostages as a 

 pledge of peaceable behaviour or leave the AlatoU in four days. 

 But they found discretion the better part of valour, their flight 

 being accelerated, according to the " Narrative." by the sound 

 of a Red Imlian war-whoop set up by Lieutenant \'idal. 



The Portuguese made some half-hearted attemtps to dis- 

 lodge them from the banks of the King George River, where 

 tliey had settled, and ultimately they resumed their course north- 

 ward. A few months later Captain Owen found at Inhantbane 



'■ our old friends the Zoolos under the name of V.itwah, well known as a maraud- 

 ing banditti, leading a Hfe of constant warfare with those around." 



M. Junod tells us from Tonga sources that Sogundaba 

 entered into an alliance with Manukosi. alias Soshongana, chief 

 of the Umdwandise (an Abambo tribe), who had fled from his 

 kraals north of the San Lucia Lake to escape Dingiswayo. These 

 two worthies, Sogimdaba and Manukosi or Soshongana. con- 

 tinued their march of rapine and destruction along tlie Lebombo 

 and Langwe foot-hills, fought the tribe of Khosa (the Grand 

 Caxa"). and then turned towards the " Bilene," and defeated one 

 of Tshaka's generals. Xgaba or Xgabu. who had been >ent in 

 pursuit. They penetrated the regions beyond the Zambesi as 

 far north as the Vao villages. Here Sogundaba quarrelled with 

 Maiuikosi. and the latter, returning sv~>uth, occupied the moun- 

 tains of " Mosapa." hence known as Gazaland. from "Aiba- 

 Gaza." as the I'mdwandise then called themselves. Manukosi. 

 who died in 1858. had two sons. Mzila or Linsila and ^LT\vewe. 

 son of the great wife and true heir. An incessant feud subsisted 

 between the brothers with varying fortune, first one then the 

 other occupying Gazaland. I'ltimately Mawewe died in Swazi- 

 land, and I'msila at Mosapa succeeded by hi> son Gungimhama 

 ( Xgimgimyane'i ."*■ 



The story of the Endwandwe. according to Miss Alice 

 Werner, is tJiat under " Zangendaba " (Sogundaba) they went 

 first to the Tong:a Country, as above mentioned, then to the 

 Basuto or Bapedi in Eastern Transvaal, then to the Ma-Kalanga. 

 where, as already stated, they were overtaken by Xgabu. Here 

 the account from Xgoni sources dift"ers from that given by Tonga 

 narrators. So far from Xgabu being defeated, he vanquished 

 the Endwandwe in two battles and chased them over the Zambesi. 

 Lo Bengula told Selous that there was a great battle which 

 lastCvl three days ; this he had heard from the old men of the 

 Aba-Gaza. Defeated and dispersed, the Endwandwe or A-Xgoni, 

 as they were henceforth called, retreated northward, crossed tlie 

 Zambesi at Zunrbo. and reached the high plateau west of Lake 

 Xyassa. where a branch of this tribe still are recognised as a 

 ruling tribe or caste. 



• See also Transvaal Native affairs Department Blue Book, "A Short Histojv 

 of Native Tribes of the Transvaal." 1905. 



